More than 1,000 people have died from cholera in Haiti and 16,800 have been hospitalized, health officials said Tuesday.
The health ministry death toll of 1,034 — accurate up to Sunday — is 117 higher than the last official toll announced at the weekend, nearly a month after the disease surfaced in the desperately poor Caribbean nation.
Authorities also said 16,799 people had received hospital treatment, some 2,150 more than the last update on Nov. 14.
Haitian officials and aid workers fear the epidemic could spread rapidly if it takes hold in Port-au-Prince’s makeshift camps where hundreds of thousands of earthquake refugees live in cramped and unsanitary conditions.
A January earthquake flattened much of the capital, leaving more than 250,000 people dead and displacing an estimated 1.3 million of Haiti’s 10 million population.